A judge has ruled in favor of First Presbyterian Church in Houston in its legal battle with New Covenant Presbytery for its property. On Feb. 20, Judge Wesley R. Ward granted the churchís request for summary judgment, ďfinding that there is no genuinely disputed issue of material fact and that plaintiff is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.Ē In his decision, Ward found that there was ďno enforceable trust or property interest created by any version of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Book of Order or the Presbyterian Church of the United States Book of Church Order under the...

John MacArthur's Position on the Lordship of Christ † Dr. John MacArthur is the Pastor of the Grace Community Church in Panorama City, California. According to a statement made on the cover of one of his books, ďhis Bible teaching and tape ministries reach millions across the globe.Ē He is the author of many books (most of which are published by Moody Press) including several full length commentaries on certain New Testament books. His local church is large, but his influence goes far beyond his local church because of his published writings and public tapes which are distributed widely....

When the present world in which we are living in is becoming extremely more hostile and aggressive towards Israel - including America's policies under Obama, ISIS, Iran, Turkey, Hezbollah and Hamas breathing threats and her border enemies following suit - DO NOT expect to see Israel idly stand by and let the world decide their fate and eradicate them from off of the face of the earth. Israel is a military might in that region with nukes and is armed to the teeth. They have one of the best armies in the world and have been soldiers of war continually...

He has publicly declared that ďthe JewsĒ control America, that apostates can be killed, that the United States is the worldís ďbiggest terroristĒ and that the Sept. 11 attacks were an ďinside jobĒ by President George W. Bush. But last weekend, Dr. Zakir Naik, a prominent Muslim televangelist from India, appeared at an elaborate ceremony at a luxury hotel in Saudi Arabia, where the new monarch, King Salman, gave him one of the countryís highest honors.

ďDabiq,Ē the ISIS recruiting magazine, sets it sights on Rome Shortly after 9/11, I happened to be in Rome, and several friends there argued at the time that a similar attack on St. Peterís was unlikely. In those innocent days Ė before we learned that jihadists have often studied engineering, medicine, and computer science Ė Rome dwellers tried to calm their fears (as it seemed then to me, at least) by quoting some tech expert who argued that if anyone tried to fly a plane into the dome of St. Peterís, it would probably just bounce off.That was Pollyannaish...

Poland could be the scene of the next traditionalist schism within the Roman Catholic Church, a leading intellectual on the conservative wing of the church writes.Pope Francis is openly departing from the teaching of the ďPolish popeĒ, Dominik Zdort wrote in daily Rzeczpospolita on Friday. Pope Francis may be be seeking the establishment of a new religion, distinct from Catholicism since John Paul IIís teaching was without a doubt within the Catholic tradition, Zdort wrote. The traditionalist writer sees the potential for a schism, as ďnever before has such a large (and growing) group of hierarchs been openly against the...

†Why bother to listen to this music?†How can we come to understand these people in war, if we don't listen to them in peace?†They're on the other side of a divide from usóvery high illiteracy rate, if a person who can't read sees a scrap of printed matter from a newpaper on the ground, they will pick it up in case it might be the Holy Quran.†Music has the ability to transcend this divide. †It's great music, one of its influences is Roman cultureóthis instrument, the Qunan, the name comes from Greek, "Canon", a ruler or tuning measuring rod. They...

After jihadists seized the ‚Äč‚ÄčTal Tamr area and at least ten Christian villages, they took 220 people hostage. Judged by an "Islamic court", 19 were released after paying US$ 1,700 per person. Assyrian and Islamic tribal leaders are negotiating the release of the other hostages.Damascus (AsiaNews) - Islamic State (IS) terrorists on Sunday freed 19 of the 220 Assyrian Christians they took hostage in Tal Tamr (Syria) last week, after a US$ 1,700 ransom per person was paid for their release, activists said. "Nineteen Assyrian hostages arrived on Sunday at the Church of Our Lady in Hasakah after they were...

To the Faithful Stewards of the Metropolis of Boston, With a very heavy heart, His Eminence informs you of the untimely passing of the Rev. Fr. Matthew Baker, who tragically died in a car accident early this evening. Fr. Matthew was recently assigned to the Holy Trinity Parish of Norwich, CT, following the retirement of Fr. Paul Pantelis. During this evening's snow storm, Fr. Baker was traveling home from the parish when he had an accident from which he did not survive. His children who were traveling in the car with Fr. Matthew are thankfully not injured. The Metropolitan spoke...

An estimated 375 people turned out for the Germany-based PEGIDA movement's first demonstration in Britain on Saturday, but were outnumbered by a 2,000-strong crowd of counter-protesters, police said. PEGIDA has drawn large crowds in Germany to protest against what it calls the "Islamisation" of Europe, and small demonstrations have also taken place in Austria and Sweden. Police in the city of Newcastle, northeast England, said five men were arrested "for isolated incidents" but insisted both the PEGIDA march and the Newcastle Unites protest passed off smoothly. The five men, aged between 17 and 54, were arrested for alleged offences including...

Feb 27 (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic grammar school located near Boston has pulled out of the city's St. Patrick's Day parade in protest over organizers' decision to allow a gay veterans' group to march in next month's event. The Immaculate Heart of Mary School, which traditionally sends its marching band to the South Boston route, said on Friday it would withdraw following a decision by the Allied War Veteran's Council, the parade's organizers, to admit a group of gay and lesbian veterans called OutVets to participate. "We can't associate with that," Brother Thomas Dalton, principal of Immaculate Heart of...

Interestingly, Jesusí hard teaching that ďwhat therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunderĒ (Mt 19:6) follows not long after his insistence to Peter on the necessity of forgiveness (see Mt 18:21Ė35). It is true that Jesus did not condemn the adulterous woman who was threatened with death by stoning, but he did not tell her to keep up her good work, to continue unchanged in her ways. He told her to sin no more (see Jn 8:1Ė11). One insurmountable barrier for those advocating a new doctrinal and pastoral discipline for the reception of Holy Communion is the...

A Vatican spokesman has denied reports that the Office of the Synod intercepted books that had been mailed to bishops participating in the October meeting of the Synod of Bishops. ďI can deny it,Ē said Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office. He was responding to a report by journalist Edward Pentin that about 100 copies of Remaining in the Truth of Christ, a collection of essays defending Catholic teaching on marriage, had been purloined. ďThe copies that arrived by mail were distributed in the mailboxes without impediment,Ē Father Lombardi told AP. ďOne person told me he...

How‚Äôs this for an unusual marketing gimmick: Red Robin is hoping to lure Catholics who are abstaining from meat during¬†Lent¬†by presenting its latest seafood menu ‚ÄĒ even inviting¬†Pope Francis¬†to lunch.And other fast food restaurants are jumping on the Lent wagon as well.Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc., based in Greenwood Village,¬†Colorado, extended an invitation to the pope on Wednesday as it introduced its new ‚ÄúWild Pacific‚ÄĚ crab cake burger.The company released a statement ‚Äújoyfully‚ÄĚ extending an invitation to the pope to eat at Red Robin during the Lenten season.‚ÄúIf His Holiness accepts and visits any U.S. location between February 18 and...

Some intriguing details from NPR: In Washington, D.C., construction is underway on the Museum of the Bible, an eight-story, $400 million enterprise funded by Hobby Lobby president Steve Green.Green is a Pentecostal known for donating to conservative evangelical universities and developing a public school curriculum based on the Bible. After the craft store‚Äôs controversial victory in this summer‚Äôs Supreme Court ruling over contraception, some people worry the new museum will come across as evangelical propaganda. But organizers behind Green‚Äôs latest venture say it won‚Äôt be a memorial to evangelism.The Museum of the Bible will house the more than 40,000 artifacts...

Kudos to Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone who, in liberal San Francisco, instructed his Catholic schoolteachers last week to teach and to act publicly in harmony with Catholicism. Imagine: expecting Catholic institutions and their employees to behave as if they were Catholic. The pushback from the media and ¬ďconcerned¬Ē politicians was predictable. But as you may have noticed, they¬íre pretty much all already off chasing the next ambulance, and the question is fading from view.There¬ís a crucial lesson here. The archbishop ¬Ė or any Church prelate these days ¬Ė should follow the playbook of the savvier sort of politicians (on this one...

The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, a transformative figure in Catholic higher education who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years and wielded influence with U.S. presidents on civil rights and other charged issues of his era, died Feb. 26 on the university campus. He was 97. A Notre Dame spokesman confirmed the death and said the cause was not immediately known. Father Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, was considered one of the most important university leaders of the past century. On his watch, the Midwestern school once known mainly for Fighting Irish football became...

WASHINGTON Ė For years, top Catholic bishops have argued for stronger federal oversight of the Internet superhighway. The alternative is intolerable, they said; big cable companies will force noncommercial religious speakers to pay more or assign them to slower lanes. On Thursday, the bishops saw their dream move one step closer to reality after the Federal Communications Commission voted for strict network neutrality or ďopen InternetĒ rules. Bishop John C. Wester, chairman of the communications committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), endorsed the FCCís approval in a statement. †ďFrom the inception of the Internet until the...

The annual ‚ÄúStatus of Global Christianity‚ÄĚ survey published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers: some are encouraging; others are discouraging; many of them are important for grasping the nature of this particular moment in Christian history. This year‚Äôs survey works from a baseline of 1900 A.D., and makes projections out to 2050. Within that century and a half there‚Äôs some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when remembering the bad news of the 20th century and the early 21st. For example: in 1900, 27.6 percent...

Rome, Italy, Feb 26, 2015 / 07:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The number of ISIS hostages in Syria has increased to at least 250 after continued attacks on Christian villages, and civilians fleeing to the Turkish border have been stranded when not allowed to cross. ďThere are 200 families who were running away and trying to escape to Turkey, but the border is closed for Syrians. No Syrian can cross into Turkey,Ē Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo told CNA Feb. 26. Archbishop Hindo oversees the Syrian archdiocese of Hassake, which is located in the Al-Hasakah region of Syria. The region sits between...

The German Bishops Conference addressed itself to a long process of talks about marriage and family by giving plenty of room for the local church. The chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx (Munich-Freising) underlined in the context of the Family Synod in autumn the efforts of the bishops for "new approaches" and to "help ensure that doors are opened". In the universal Church, there is "a certain expectation" of Germany. He hoped that some issues would be addressed before the Synod, Marx told journalists n Hildesheim on Tuesday. The Archbishop of Munich and Freising assumes after the...

Family of Bishop Shi Enxiang, who spent more than half a century in detention for refusing to renounce Pope's authority, told by a village official last month that he had died, aged 93In a living room plastered with pious images, the Shi family flicked through timeworn pictures of a wizened man with tortoiseshell glasses and bright eyes, the oldest bishop of Chinaís underground Catholic church. Almost a month ago, they were passed word that Bishop Shi Enxiang Ė who spent more than half a century in detention for refusing to renounce the authority of the Pope Ė had died, aged...

Assyrian Church in Beirut Islamic State militants have reportedly executed 15 Christians who have been captured in villages in northeastern Syria since Monday. A priest who has been feeding reports to Christian aid agencies around the world, including Aleteia partner Aid to the Church in Need, said today that a Christian Assyrian lawyer in the city of Hassakah told him that about 15 young Assyrians "are martyred. Many of them were fighting to defend and protect the villages and families." Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana of CAPNI, the Christian Aid Program in Iraq,†said that in the Christian village of†Tel Hormizd: 14...

From Crux:¬† Pope Francis was not involved in an early January decision to bury a homeless man in a Vatican cemetery, a spokesman said Wednesday; however, he would likely be pleased because it corresponds with his desire to make the poor a priority.Known by Vatican personnel for spending his days approaching pilgrims around St. Peter¬ís Basilica to tell them to go to confession and to pray daily, Willy Herteller, who was Flemish, died in Rome on Dec. 12 at the age of 80.He was buried in the Vatican¬ís small German cemetery, which is more commonly a final resting place for...

Last week, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kiev-Halych, led an ‚Äúad limina‚ÄĚ visit of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic hierarchy, of which he has been the head since March 2011. In the course of their stay in Rome, he and the other bishops celebrated the Divine Liturgy in a number of churches, including Saint John in the Lateran, the Pope‚Äôs own cathedral, St Paul‚Äôs outside-the-Walls, and St Mary Major. The Pontifical Ukrainian Institute of the Protection of the Holy Mother of God, (–ü–į–Ņ—Ā—Ć–ļ–ł–Ļ –£–ļ—Ä–į—ó–Ĺ—Ā—Ć–ļ–ł–Ļ I–Ĺ—Ā—ā–ł—ā—É—ā –ü–ĺ–ļ—Ä–ĺ–≤–į –ü—Ä–Ķ—Ā–≤—Ź—ā–ĺ—ó –Ď–ĺ–≥–ĺ—Ä–ĺ–ī–ł—Ü—Ė) has posted a large number of photographs of these liturgies to...

An archbishop from Ghana suggested that the Church might explore using ďthe power of the keysĒ to release spouses from their marital vows, in an interview with Aleteia. ďIt is daring to say what Iím saying,Ē acknowledged Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra. But he suggested that the October meeting of the Synod of Bishops might explore the possibility that the Church could allow couples to remarry without an annulment. He did not specify how such a proposal could be reconciled with the Churchís teaching on the permanence of marriage, and conceded that the Church could not contradict that teaching. Archbishop...

SAN FRANCISCO ó Under pressure from his Catholic schools community, the archbishop of the San Francisco archdiocese is peeling back strict guidelines he proposed for teachers that would require them to reject homosexuality, use of contraception, and other ďevilĒ behavior. Most significantly, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said he is dropping an effort to designate high school teachers as ďministers,Ē which, under a 2012 US Supreme Court ruling, would have eliminated them from government-mandated employee protections by placing them solely under Church control. In an hour-long meeting with The San Francisco Chronicleís editorial board, Cordileone said he is forming a committee of...

British Christian schools could face a European Commission investigation, following complaints from a humanist campaign group. The British Humanist Association (BHA) claims that faith schools breach European Union (EU) equality rules when hiring staff, because they say religious adherence is a ďdesirableĒ quality. EU rules state that schools must prove there is a ďgenuine occupational requirementĒ in preferring to recruit teachers of faith. IntolerantSpokesman for The Christian Institute, Simon Calvert, said church schools are ďhugely popularĒ, and their ethos is why ďthey do such a good job of preparing children for life in 21st-century BritainĒ. ďItís disappointing that humanists seem...

Officials quiet about status of discussion after several scholars voice concernOfficials at the University of Notre Dame are contemplating opening a satellite campus in China, but the discussion has prompted concern among some faculty who say the notion runs afoul of the schoolís Catholic identity and, if approved, would appear to condone some of the communist countryís anti-Catholic policies. The partnership under consideration would be a joint residential liberal arts college with Zhejiang University at the schoolís new international campus in Haining, China. The college would open for the 2017-18 academic year and is projected to admit 1,000 undergraduate students,...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Members of a county Republican Party in Idaho are to take up a measure on Tuesday evening that would declare the state a Christian one to bolster what the proposal calls the "Judeo-Christian bedrock of the founding of the United States." The resolution to be voted on by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is non-binding, meaning it does not have the effect of laws or rules. The proposal seeks that Idaho be "formally and specifically declared a Christian state," guided by a Judeo-Christian faith reflected in the U.S. Declaration of Independence where all authority and...

A remark by Pope Francis to the effect that he hoped his homeland Argentina could avoid "Mexicanization" was not intended to offend Mexicans or to undervalue the government's efforts to fight drug trafficking, the Vatican said on Wednesday. The Vatican said in a statement that it had informed Mexico's ambassador to the Holy See that the "pope had absolutely no intention of offending the feelings of the Mexican people, whom he loves very much, nor to ignore the commitment of the Mexican government to fighting drug trafficking."

My friends, the longer I walk with the Lord and exercise His Word in my life, the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY are ever more clear to me (Psalm 119: 98-100, Prov. 1:5-7, 1 Cor. 1:18-31). No matter who you are, whenever one seeks to abide and take on the Lord of ETERNITY'S yoke (Matt. 11:28-20), one will be illumined beyond ones wildest dreams to the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY. The REALITIES of time and ETERNITY are absolutely horrific! No wonder men love darkness instead of light and seek to hide themselves from the accountability of Almighty God (John...

Now there can be no doubt¬óTimothy Cardinal Dolan has been played for a sucker by the organizers of the 2015 New York City St. Patrick¬ís Day parade. He must step down as Grand Marshal.According to reports, parade organizers are engaged in last-minute negotiations with city officials to allow additional Irish LGBT advocacy organizations to march in this year¬ís parade. Such groups had been prohibited from marching by a long-standing ban on explicitly political banners in the parade, a policy that also kept pro-life groups off Fifth Avenue.In September, the parade committee announced that a single group, OUT@NBCUniversal, would be allowed...

It seems that Rob Bell and Oprah Winfrey are pretty good friends these days. Bell has appeared on Oprahís show numerous times, and just recently appeared, along with his wife Kristen, on her ďSuper Soul SundayĒ episode over Valentineís Day weekend. Their appearance was designed to promote their new book, The ZimZum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage (HarperOne: 2014). Now, I have to confess that I have no idea what the main title means. But, the subtitle is pretty bold. Given that marriage dates back to the very creation of mankind in Genesis, do we really need...

If "love is love" and "everyone should have the right to marry the one they love," then why can't any number of people come together in "marriage"? On Valentine's Day, three men in Thailand were "married," and immediately, they became an Internet sensation. As reported on GayStarNews.com, when Joke, Bell, and Art posted their "wedding" pictures online, "the internet went crazy," with one Facebook post receiving 50,000 Likes and more than 1,000 comments. Why not? After all, "love is love," right? How can any gay activist object? As Art commented on Facebook, "Love occurs unconditionally and is not limited to...

Emergency Contraception at Catholic Institutions: Bishops Can No Longer Claim Ignorance by Dr. Brian KoppFebruary 24, 2015Photo courtesy of Mike Mozart. The February 2015 Linacre Quarterly (the official journal of the Catholic Medical Association) features a groundbreaking study by Chris Kahlenborn, MD of The Polycarp Research Institute titled Mechanism of action of levonorgestrel emergency contraception. The study, contrasting the theoretical basis on which emergency contraception (otherwise known as ďPlan BĒ) is claimed to function with the facts and statistics of the most recent research outlining the mechanism by which they cause early abortions, is sure to cause heartburn among...

The last words out of their mouths were ¬ďLord Jesus Christ.¬Ē Samuel Tadros is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute¬ís Center for Religious Freedom and the author of the book Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity. He talks with NRO¬ís Kathryn Jean Lopez about the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians killed on February 14 in Libya by ISIS and about the future of Christianity in Egypt and the region. Kathryn Jean Lopez: What is the most important thing for Americans to know about what happened to those 21 Coptic Christians a little over a week ago? Samuel...

Swearing in of the Swiss Guard at the Vatican on May 6, 2014. Credit: Daniel Ib√°√Īez/CNA. Vatican City, Feb 24, 2015 / 02:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard says the group of soldiers charged with protecting the Pope is on high alert and ready to act if any threat from ISIS materializes. ‚ÄúWe are ready to intervene. Our job is security. and as gendarmes we are well organized. We are ready if anything happens,‚ÄĚ said Cristoph Graf. At age 54, Graf is married with two children. Yet he and the other members of the Swiss...

Washington D.C., Feb 22, 2015 / 04:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The brutal murder of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya at the hands of ISIS last week is shining a light on the reality faced by many of Egyptís Christians on a daily basis. ďThese 21 victims, they were not the first and they will not be the last. There is a flowing river of Christian blood in the Middle East,Ē said Mina Abdelmalak, one of the organizers of a D.C. candlelight prayer vigil outside the White House on Ash Wednesday. The prayer vigil commemorated the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded last...

Whether President Barack Obama is truly a Christian has been a hot topic for debate recently, especially after the mainstream media attempted to trip up pro-life Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on the question. The question of whether anyone is truly a Christian person has more to do with faith than anything else. Does the person in question truly have an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ and acknowledged the fact that he died on the cross to save humanity from our sins and bridge the gap sin caused between ourselves and God. While that question has more to do with worldview...

Like everyone else who cares more about the facts than his own opinions, Iíve recently read Graeme Woodís excellent Atlantic article ďWhat Isis Really Wants.Ē Those of you making do with excerpts and pull quotes, stop, and go read the whole thing. That it renders the presidentís statements about ISIS absurd is the least of the articleís accomplishments. No one but a small coterie of leftist knuckleheads believes what Obama says on this subject anyway ó though itís unfortunate that the president himself is part of that coterie. Among the many things in the piece that inspire thought is Woodís...

Rome on high alert with Islamic State just 300 miles from ItalyAbout 500 extra troops have been stationed around historic sites in Rome after ISIS made threats against the city last week. Italy, which is just 300-miles from jihadi-controlled territory in Libya, was referred to by the terrorists as ďthe nation signed with the blood of the crossĒ in a recent video. ISIS has made repeated references to conquering Rome in its various messages, although there is some debate about whether ďRomeĒ in fact refers to a symbolic enemy, or perhaps Turkey or the United Sttaes. However, according to USA...

If you havenít been following Barronelle Stutzmanís case in Washington State, you need to be. She is the florist being sued by the state attorney general for refusing to participate in a gay wedding. The attorney general is trying to compel her to ignore her Christian faith and to participate in gay weddings. If she refuses, he is threatening the full coercive power of the state to force her to do it. She stands to lose everythingóher home, her savings, her business, her livelihoodóif she does not comply. I have an article today at CNN.com explaining the situation. The conclusion...

In the time since I filed my last column from up here in the Arctic wastes, ďphysician-assisted dyingĒ has been legalized by a unanimous decision of the Canadian Supreme Court. The decision reversed the Courtís own hard-reasoned position, upholding the law in 1993. It is stayed for one year to allow our Parliament a legislative response. This actually makes things worse. The only remaining live question is whether there will be any restrictions at all on euthanasia, and the likely answer is no. In 1988, our Supreme Court vacated certain restrictions on abortion that had been retained in the extremely...

VATICAN CITY ó The Islamic Stateís beheading in August of the journalist James Foley stirred global outrage, fury and despair. But for many of his fellow Roman Catholics, Mr. Foleyís death in Syria transformed him into a symbol of faith under the most brutal of conditions. One Catholic essayist compared him to St. Bartholomew, who died for his Christian faith. Others were drawn to Mr. Foleyís account of praying the rosary during an earlier captivity in Libya. Even Pope Francis, in a condolence call to Mr. Foleyís parents, described him as a martyr, according to the family. Then came an...

Three times the Evangelists preserved our Lordís words in the original Aramaic: When He cried out from the Cross, ďMy God, My God" When He raised from the dead the daughter of Jairus When He healed the man who had been deaf from birth That ďEphphathaĒóďBe openedĒóin the last instance, was a sign that our Lord opens human consciousness to a full awareness of God. The Latin word for deafósurdusógives us ďabsurd,Ē and the ultimate absurdity is to deny the existence of God and His appeal to the human soul. I recently had the privilege of preaching at the funeral...

This article caught my eye--Six Ways Mormons Can Enjoy the Spirit of Lent.¬† Why would Mormons want anything to do with Lent?--something Mormons have historically associated with paganism creeping into the church shortly after the age of the apostles.¬† Well, if American evangelicals are now attracted to such things, Mormons will do the same. Notice the way in which the author of this essay (Kelsey Berteaux) explains how easily the Lenten season can be made to fit right in with Mormon notions of works-righteousness ("grace coupled with obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel") . . . Though...

Students at Kings College London (KCL) have successfully campaigned for the removal of a window featuring former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, an alumnus of the college, on the grounds that his stance on gay marriage makes him ďhomophobicĒ. The move comes despite Careyís reputation as a liberal while he was Archbishop, ushering in the ordination of women priests for the first time in the Churchís history. The front windows of KCLís Strand campus, which line the famous London thoroughfare for 90 metres feature head and shoulders images of 50 well known alumni of the College, including former Prime Minister...

SAN FRANCISCO ó The archbishop of San Francisco sent a letter to California lawmakers on Thursday asking them to respect his right to hire people who uphold Catholic teachings. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote the message in response to a letter sent to him earlier this week by California lawmakers urging him to remove from a teachersí handbook morality clauses they say are discriminatory and divisive. ďWould you hire a campaign manager who advocates policies contrary to those you stand for, and who shows disrespect for you and the Democratic Party in general?Ē Cordileone asked the lawmakers in the letter.